A history of reading in the West / edited by Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier ; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.

Archaic and classical Greece: the invention of silent reading / Jesper Svenbro --Between Volumen and Codex: reading in the Roman world / Guglielmo Cavallo --Reading, copying and interpreting a text in the early Middle Ages / M.B. Parkes --The scholastic model of reading / Jacqueline Hamesse --Reading in the later Middle Ages / Paul Saenger --Reading in the Jewish communities of Western Europe in the Middle Ages / Robert Bonfil --The humanist as reader / Anthony Grafton --Protestant reformations and reading / Jean-Fran­cois Gilmont --Reading and the counter-reformation / Dominique Julia --Reading matter and 'popular' reading: from the Renaissance to the seventeenth century / Roger Chartier --Was there a reading revolution at the end of the eighteenth century? / Reinhard Wittmann --New readers in the nineteenth century: women, children, workers / Martyn Lyons --Reading to read: a future for reading / Armando Petrucci